Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan